Why we dragged NFF to Supreme Court -Giwa

Club owner, Chris Giwa, has given reasons why he has taken a leadership tussle of the Nigeria Football Federation to the country’s apex court, the Supreme Court.

Giwa at a press conference in Abuja on the state of the nation’s football explained why his group has had to go to the final court of the land to determine the legitimacy of the NFF leadership.
“We have taken the matter to the Supreme Court. Appeal is different from stay of execution. They are two different processes. We have filed an appeal and we have filed a stay of execution saying that we do not agree with the judgment,” he said.

“The Court of Appeal has given us September 19, 2016, for that motion of stay of execution to be heard. Once that is done by law that judgment is ineffective till when that motion is argued.

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“When we got our ruling from the Federal High Court (Jos), I know some people may ask why you held on to it. Yes we held on to it because the defendant there did not ask for stay (of execution). If they had applied for stay, that judgment wouldn’t have been effective till when the Court would give a pronouncement.

“But they never did that. So they withdrew it and they relied on leave to appeal and went to the Appeal Court. We have appealed to the Supreme Court against the ruling of 21st July 2016 and the judgment of 25thJuly 2016. The effect of this application is that the judgment of 25th July shall be stayed pending the hearing of the application.

“In view of the foregoing, we have taken patience to pursue the slow but sure processes in our laws. We have secured all legal decisions that guarantee our place in the management of Nigerian football.

“With the quality of patience we have exhibited, we shall explore all legal means without violence. This is not to say we are not capable of violently taking what belongs to us otherwise, we would have posited that if the next stage will warrant forceful execution, we may consider same.

“We are going to inform the structure in a matter of days agree and take all steps to take our legal mandate.”

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